THE FAMILY AND SOCIETY
Sir-I wish to protest strongly against the! interruption of Alan Nixon’s excellent series, The Family, and Society, from, 1YC. These lectures were moral in tone and intention, , factual in content, scientific in approach ‘and discreet in language. One would expect siich lectures to seek truth and to uphold the values
which make a society good. Mr. Nixon’s talks did so to a degree unusual, and were much more moral in effect than the average sermon. To interrupt them on the grounds that "such things should not be talked about" is ridiculous. If, for example, our illegitimacy tate is high, the important thing is to know it and do something about such an evil, not pretend for our comfort that it does not exist. The Good Samaritan had’ to-look at the man criminally used, while the pious Jew for his own comfort’ looked the other ways'> #7" as} Surely we must have proper standards of censorship in the NZBS, those of morality, value and: public interest}: not just submission to the noise of the timjd and self-righteous. A minor matter. I understand that talks afe cut after recording, and without consulting the lecturer. Should we not have the same courtesies on the air as in the press?
DOROTHY
SOUTHERN
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 632, 10 August 1951, Page 5
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